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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 — Minister Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said has named the three ministers who met with the Attorney-General to find a way to resolve a high-profile child custody case involving M. Indira Gandhi, the New Straits Times (NST) reported today.
Azalina said the children in this custody dispute should not be victimised.
“Everyone has been affected by this case and I, as a former shariah lawyer, feel strongly about it.
“It is not right for the children to be victimised,” the minister in the Prime Minister’s Department was quoted saying by the local daily.
The three ministers are Tourism and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz, Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam and Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom, Azalina said.
Nazri was holding the post of de facto law minister when the legal dispute involving Indira first started in 2009.
NST cited an unnamed source that said the three ministers were picked following this Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting and had met the AG Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali for the first time this Thursday for discussion on a solution.
In 2009, Indira’s Muslim convert ex-spouse Muhammad Riduan Abdullah snatched away their youngest daughter Prasana Diksa then aged 11 months old, before unilaterally converting the three children in their absence.
Just six days after converting them, he obtained a temporary custody order in the Shariah court on April 8, 2009, and subsequently obtained a permanent custody order in the Islamic court on September 29, 2009.
In the long drawn-out child custody battle, Indira subsequently won full custody of her three children in the Ipoh High Court on March 11, 2010, with the same civil court issuing a recovery order in her favour.
Muhammad Riduan has failed to challenge the custody order at the Federal Court, but has yet to return Prasana Diksa despite being found in contempt of court for failing to comply with the Ipoh court ruling.
The Federal Court has yet to deliver its decision after a hearing last August on whether the courts can compel the Inspector-General of Police to find Prasana Diksa and return her to her mother.
The police previously declined to act on the civil court’s orders to recover Prasana Diksa, due to allegedly conflicting jurisdictions as the Muslim convert father had obtained custody for his three children in the Shariah court.
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